The
West likes to think of our wars in terms of Black & White or Us
and Them. But usually every major war is composed in “threes”.
This one, if it comes, will have a lot to do with Poverty and the
potential end of Luxury: For all but the very few.

With
the dollar fading out amid the waste and ruin of societies that are
drowning in pollution, poisons and corruption throughout our totally
contradictory way of life: The image above is held together by the
ancient Greek symbol for Ecology. But the coming war, if that
happens, will have far more to do with “Bread & Roses” than
with the billions of people that have made gold far-more important
than the natural life that once flourished on the planet.

Yesterday
there was an article about something I haven’t heard about since I
was a teenager: The continuing possibility of War between India and
Pakistan.

“December
11, 2013 "Information
Clearing House
- "PTI"
- WASHINGTON -A nuclear war between India and Pakistan would result
in a global famine that could kill over two billion people — a
quarter of the world's population — and end human civilization, a
study warned today.”

“India”
was the world’s largest colonial nation, before breaking free from
England. When the breakup of India happened nothing about the future
of the parts that were loosed was clear. This too deals with three
countries not just two. Kashmir, the third element, has also become
divided since the war in 1947. Involved are religious and political
differences that cloud the many issues: But the nuclear aspects trump
everything else, since the Red-Chinese took control over Tibet, which
was a separate state at the time of the Indian-Pakistan war.

"A
nuclear war using only a fraction of existing arsenals would produce
massive casualties on a global scale—far more than we had
previously believed," said Ira Helfand, the study's author and
co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW).

In a previous study in 2012, the Nobel
Peace Prize- winning IPPNW and Physicians for Social Responsibility
said that a nuclear famine could kill more than a billion
people.

According
to the study, a nuclear war using as few as 100 weapons anywhere in
the world would disrupt the global climate and agricultural
production so severely that the lives of more than two billion people
would be in jeopardy.

"A
billion people dead in the developing world is obviously a
catastrophe unparalleled in human history. But then if you add to
that the possibility of another 1.3 billion people in China being at
risk, we are entering something that is clearly the end of
civilization," Helfand said.

"Chinese winter wheat
production would fall 50 per cent in the first year and, averaged
over the entire decade after the war, would be 31 per cent below
baseline," it said.

"The prospect of a decade of
widespread hunger and intense social and economic instability in the
world's largest country has immense implications for the entire
global community, as does the possibility that the huge declines in
Chinese wheat production will be matched by similar declines in other
wheat producing countries," Helfand said.

He said the
study looked at India and Pakistan as the two sides have fought three
full-fledged wars since 1947.

But
the author also said that the earth would expect a similar impact
from any limited nuclear war. Modern atomic weapons are far more
powerful than the US bombs that killed more than 200,000 people in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

"Countries around the
world — those who are nuclear-armed and those who are not — must
work together to eliminate the threat and consequences of nuclear
war," Helfand said.

"In order to eliminate this
threat, we must eliminate nuclear weapons," he added.” (1)

A
reader had this to say:

“Indian
and Pakistan have been pissed off at each other for as long as I can
remember. The only thing that has stopped their war is the nuclear
deterrent that they both possess.

However,
on the Capitalistic side ~ if they go at it hot and heavy w/o
destroying the upper atmosphere, USI will need to bring the off shore
jobs home.

No
more tech support from a “Steve”, a person that can’t even
speak the Queen’s English.

The
carnage may take out the people trying to get here on H1B or H2B
visa, and might be quicker for manufacturers to offer Americans the
jobs (or what may happen is that the Chinese get the jobs). And there
is a million other dynamics that could change.

Medical
bills, (pharmaceuticals) clothing, things made from brass and
stainless steel, etc, etc, etc, will need to be made somewhere else.

And
this is where it may be cheaper to on-shore these processes rather
than build new plants in Eastern Europe or give everything to the
Chinese. Businesses are finding that that may not be economically
smart or feasible.

k)
This makes the assumption that the rest of the world could have this
war, without interrupting our primary-obsessions with goods &
services ­ which if this war happens would seem extremely unlikely:
Especially if this war did major damage to the already challenged
upper atmosphere…?

Maybe
this situation might more likely devolve into this version of

WANT
& ABUNDANCE
than anything we’re experiencing now?

The
world will have to recycle ships in another country. I have seen how
they do that in films. They wait until the highest tide then run the
ships aground and cut them up on the beach.

The
labor pool is so large that management doesn’t worry about lost men
or like in this country, worker comp or OSHA.

At
least 1 person a day dies while recycling these ships and there are a
1000 men standing in line waiting for the next guy to die. Exactly
like our industrial revolution.

Hell,
I remember at the end of the movie “War games” where the computer
is running the simulations of war games and what comes up on the
screen is the Indio/Pakistan conflict.

Between
the 2, the game runs in computer time and both countries are wiped
off the map.

Like
the computer states at the end, it’s best not to “play the game”
at all.”

In
any case it would seem that while the planet has been subsumed by the
“Global War for the One-World-Order: Perhaps we’ve forgotten that
to actually change anything about the global-situation the people of
the planet would need to consider THOUGHT
before
ACTION?

If
there is a nuclear war on this scale in our future between the
nuclear states of India & Pakistan: Then Israel’s blackmail
will finally be underscored as the insanity that Netanyahu and his
self-consumed unfinished-state-of-Israel have always represented…